UP Polls: 59 Assembly Constituencies to Vote in Third Phase, 627 Candidates in Fray
GG News Bureau
Lucknow, 19th Feb. Polling for 59 assembly constituencies spread across 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh will take place on Sunday (20th Feb) in the third phase of the elections.
Campaigning for the third phase of the UP elections ended on Friday, with senior leaders of the parties making a final effort to woo voters.
As many as 627 candidates are in the fray in the 3rd phase, in which over 2.15 crore people are eligible to vote.
Districts where voting will be held are Hathras, Firozabad, Etah, Kasganj, Mainpuri, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Etawah, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Mahoba.
The Karhal assembly seat, from where Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav is contesting, will also go to the electionds in the third phase.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Union minister S P Singh Baghel from the Karhal seat.
Voting on Sunday will also decide the fate of the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief’s uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, who is contesting from his traditional Jaswantnagar seat.
Before the campaigning ended for the third phase elections on Friday, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi held a door-to-door campaign in Kanpur, Kalpi, Jalaun and Hamirpur, while BSP chief Mayawati addressed election meetings in Jalaun and Auraiya.Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav sought votes for his son Akhilesh Yadav in Karhal.
The Bharatiya Janata Party had approached the Election Commission (EC) seeking deployment of paramilitary forces at all booths in Karhal.
Among the prominent faces in the contest in this phase are BJP’s Satish Mahana (Maharajpur in Kanpur) and Ramvir Upadhaya (Sadabad in Hathras) and Louise Khurshid, who is contesting on the Congress’ ticket from Farrukhabad Sadar.
Louise Khurshid is the wife of senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid.
Former IPS officer Asim Arun is contesting from Kannauj Sadar on the BJP ticket, while Uttar Pradesh minister Ramnaresh Agnihotri is also in the fray in this phase.
Voting will start at 7 am on Sunday and continue till 6 pm.
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